L.A. Times: Reporting from Port Townsend, Wash. — When the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig disaster sent a torrent of toxic oil into the Gulf of Mexico, there was at least one person — sitting at the moment in a federal penitentiary in Colorado — briskly penning, “I told you so.” Failures of technology don’t get [...]
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Czech President Vaclav Klaus on Saturday criticized U.N. calls for increased “global governance” of the world’s economy, saying the world body should leave that role to national governments. The solution to dealing with the global economic crisis, Klaus told the U.N. General Assembly, did not lie in “creating new [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — Democratic candidates across the country are opening a fierce offensive of negative advertisements against Republicans, using lawsuits, tax filings, reports from the Better Business Bureau and even divorce proceedings to try to discredit their opponents and save their Congressional majority. Opposition research and attack advertising are used in almost every [...]
Related: American Rancher X, Part 1 and American Rancher X, Part 2, both by Pat Dollard at Big Government and Big Peace. Arizona Republic: by Lindsey Collom – Sept. 26, 2010 12:00 AM Outdoor enthusiasts for years have been drawn to the Sonoran Desert National Monument to explore its wildlife and arid beauty. These days, [...]
Arizona Republic: Outside of being imprisoned, no action in the American justice system deprives a person of so many rights as being declared incapacitated in Probate Court. First, a judge rules that you can’t care for yourself. Then strangers can be given control of every aspect of your life. All that you’ve worked for and [...]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – An Iranian newspaper reports that a delegation from Oman will visit Iran to pursue the release of two American men imprisoned for more than a year. The Gulf sultanate of Oman played a key role in the release this month of a third American, Sarah Shourd, who was arrested with the [...]
AZ Central/WAPO: A 30 percent rise in the planting of improvised explosive devices by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan this year has resulted in more wounded American and coalition troops, according to newly compiled Pentagon statistics. But fewer of them are dying from the attacks. Through August, there have been 1,062 effective IED attacks against coalition [...]
Wall Street Journal: By MARK MAREMONT And VICTORIA MCGRANE Two years after the peak of the financial crisis, the federal government swooped in to stabilize a crucial part of the credit-union sector battered by losses on subprime mortgages. Regulators announced Friday a rescue and revamping of the nation’s wholesale credit union system, underpinned by a [...]
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The little-known Democrat in Alaska’s Senate race is labeling Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s write-in campaign as a lost cause. Scott McAdams told The Associated Press on Saturday that it’s “wishful thinking†on Murkowski’s part if she thinks she can overcome history — and other factors after her loss in last month’s GOP [...]
View of spot, halfway up hill, where we interviewed American Rancher X Previously: American Rancher X, Part 1 Big Peace: by Pat Dollard “I don’t need you here, stirring up trouble, especially by shooting. The cartels shot at two people on my land last year. A surveyor and another guy. Right over that hill.†He [...]
Fox News: With comprehensive immigration overhaul off the table, President Obama and his Democratic allies have tried smaller proposals to provide illegal immigrants a path toward citizenship or permanent legal residency — a strategy that is now being called into question after two efforts fell flat this week. First, Democrats failed to muster enough votes [...]
The Daily Mail: These are the maps that show the racial breakdown of America’s biggest cities. Using information from the latest U.S. census results, the maps show the extent to which America has blended together the races in the nation’s 40 largest cities. With one dot equalling 25 people, digital cartographer Eric Fischer then colour-coded [...]
